Aerated soil?
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Yekke
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Soil aeration refers to the air capacity of your soil.
Soils have 3 phases comprising their volume: solids, water and air.
The gaps between the soil particles are called pores, and they could be filled by water or air (together = fluids), depending on how much water is added.
Different soil components make for a difference in the volume of soil pores, usually ranging from organic matter to sand to clay in organic soils. Other mediums, such as vermiculite, perlite, rockwool, hydrotron, tuff, coco fibers, peat moss (and more) offer very high air capacity and they range between themselves in their water holding capacity.
To aerate a soil you would need to add high porosity materials, in large scale usually with sand, in garden scale with coco / peat and in small pots (up to 10L) with chunky (or #4) perlite.
Compost is organic matter you can add to your soil and it offers very high porosity while also hold a lot of water.
If you can get really good compost 1/2 compost 1/2 coco 1/500 lime makes a great mix.
-Yekke
Soils have 3 phases comprising their volume: solids, water and air.
The gaps between the soil particles are called pores, and they could be filled by water or air (together = fluids), depending on how much water is added.
Different soil components make for a difference in the volume of soil pores, usually ranging from organic matter to sand to clay in organic soils. Other mediums, such as vermiculite, perlite, rockwool, hydrotron, tuff, coco fibers, peat moss (and more) offer very high air capacity and they range between themselves in their water holding capacity.
To aerate a soil you would need to add high porosity materials, in large scale usually with sand, in garden scale with coco / peat and in small pots (up to 10L) with chunky (or #4) perlite.
Compost is organic matter you can add to your soil and it offers very high porosity while also hold a lot of water.
If you can get really good compost 1/2 compost 1/2 coco 1/500 lime makes a great mix.
-Yekke